Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-09-17
Cluster Chronicle.
LABOR NOTES.

less interest in labor politics, the
. official labor movement in Pennsyl-
vania, as usual, lags away behind.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
cannot get cars enough to haul all the
coke made and sold. 1t is borrowing
right and left and making express time
back on complies"
In Birmingham, Ala, $4,000, 900
worth Of buildings are in course OF
erection. The buildings are rented
before completed. Working people
live cheaply and comfortably.
The hardware manufacturers OF the
New England states have had the most
successful season ever enjoyed, and en-
largements are now in progress In
very state.
Clothing cutters expect to have all
the work they can possibly do. There
are very few apprentices coming along
DO compete for employment.
The largest plate glass works in the
world will soon be erected Mt Hanover
vile, thirty miles east of Pittsburg.
The sum of $4,000 was paid for the
site.
The Pittsburg window glass manu-
facturers will not resume on Septem-
Der | unless the workmen shall agree
to accept the old rate of wages.
Labor organizers are less active now
than they have been for months, al
though new lodges and associations
are constantly %springing up.
A foreign government is having a
duplicate made of the pneumatic dyn-
amite gun nowin course of construc-
ton at Cramps.
The girls of Louisville are having a
partial business training, including
bookkeeping. short hand writing and
type-wrlting.
The twenty-four savings banks OF
New York have deposits amounting to
$3.50, 900, 900. The number of depos-
itors is G87 ,000.
On September l the gas commits
sioner of New York will consider a
number of propositions to light the city
electrically.
American engineers will probably
soon be called upon to build a railroad
across Central America to the Pacific.
A great many shoe manufacturers
are going up into New Hampshire.
Farmer boys are picking up the trade.
Large purchases of coal lands are
being made in Western Pennsylvania
despite the natural gas craze.
The Indiana coal operators refuse to
pay their miners semi-monthly accord
ing to the laws of the state.
A New York railroad company will
expend 5000, 900 in introducing a new
system of steam heating for cars.
Up to August 26 only 1923 wage
workers had struc':. II whom 1000
were Youngstown q~uarrymen.
Sixty Be,giaps nave just arrived at
he Tareptam, Pa. fiite-glass works,
- - -, =. at,.Iyn
Southern cotton mills are adopting
electricity, and find it cheaper and
more serviceable than gas.
Boiler makers are quite busy all over
the country, and machine shop labor
il in active demand.
The pressed ware and lamp chimney
factories of the country viii all be run
ming this week.
There is q great and increasing de-
mand for small houses in southern
manufacturing cities.
The coal trade is very dull in West
Virginia, ard the miners are eating up
heir earnings.
1t has been estimated by electricians
that 1t will cost only s126.0 900 per year
10 light Chicago.
Twenty cars have been ordered to run
on the seven miles of electric railway
Ala Omaha.
A London company has ordered 500
cars to be run by electricity instead of
horse power.
The makers of base ball goods have
been driven this year to their utmost
capacity.
The tanners of the United States will
meet at Saratoga or September z.
Shoe manufacturers find machine
lasting not so profitable as hand last
Ing.
Alvan Clark, the Boston telescope
maker, was originally n calico en-
graver.